I recently attended a complete immersion of education philosophy, education methods and pedagogy, technology tools for learning and connectedness with education thought leaders from around the world. All of this took place at one of our premier annual education conferences, ISTE 2012 in San Diego. Educators attend these conferences with their own focuses. They select the sessions they need from a smorgasbord of high-quality…

Joan R. Fretz

Summer will provide us all with some much needed time to think.  This school year, we were continuously bombarded with “have to do’s” and there was little time to enjoy education or work proactively.   Our actions as administrators and teachers are being controlled by the demands of…

Q&A: All Students Can Be Successful Online

2012 National Online Teacher of the Year Leslie Fetzer

• Digital Directions

At a time when a growing number of…

Modern educational leadership from a high-school principal by Eric Sheninger

By Eric Sheninger on June 26, 2012

Visit Eric's Website @ http://www.ericsheninger.com/esheninger

As society, education and learners change, so does the need to have educational leaders who embody a modern form of leadership. Modern leaders must establish a vision and implement a strategic process…

Creating Connections: 5 Worthy Investments by Jeff Delp 

June 26, 2012

Molehills out of Mountains Blog - Musings on Education, Leadership and Social Good

Recently, a colleague was telling me about a math teacher at his school.  Students in this teacher’s class have done exceptionally well by a number of measures –…

Recently, there has been a lot of media attention on cheating and exam security. We’re seeing more and more cases of students, and an even greater number of teachers, trying to navigate their way around the system.

In the story “The Perfect Score: Cheating on the SAT”  from “60 Minutes,” Sam Eshaghoff, a 19-year-old Emory University student from Long Island, New York, is facing criminal fraud and impersonation charges for taking the SAT and ACT tests…

Reboot the School

Fifth-graders at eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their desks with netbooks. They're in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to convert percentages to decimals. "If we get rid of the percent sign, we just have to move the decimal…

5 Leadership Keys I Have Learned from the Martial Arts by Brad Szollose

Retrieved July 26, 2010

http://www.liquidleadership.blogspot.com/

At 45, through some serious prompting from my wife's 17-year old nephew, Sebastian, I decided to do something that most people my age would find a little risky - I enrolled in Shaolin Kempo Jujitsu. 



Imagine a…

The Power of the Lurker by Steven Anderson

June 12, 2012

http://blog.web20classroom.org/

Any one who knows me or reads my blog and Tweets knows I am a big advocate of social learning. The idea that we don't have to be the smartest or be an expert in everything should be a big relief in the classroom. When I started teaching I did everything I could to make sure I knew more than my…

I had the fortunate opportunity to stumble on George's work in 2007 and continue to follow George through many online communities.  You can read more about George's work on Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age at http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm  I found this Q & A with Mary Grush from…

Hello, school leaders.  I hope this message is read by others with similar issues.  I am certain many of you can relate to the frustration of responding to new bully laws and guidelines.  You have all heard, "nothing was done about this." Does anyone out there have any suggesstions, ideas, programs, anything that will help us to respond to and stop this behavior.  I did everything by the law and more but still do not feel that I am successful.  There must be a way to help the…

Too Much Technology? By Dave Meister on ConnectedPrincipals.com

By Dave Meister on June 27, 2012

ConnectedPrincipals.com

       What is it that makes a public school valuable?  Is it the information it provides?  Is it the opportunities that are available there? Going forward in these times of inter-connectivity, where the physical school building and the learning…